US EditionDownings priest to witness Pope Francis' historic basilica burial - Donegal Daily
- Pope Francis will be buried today at Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major.
- He chose burial at this site, having visited the basilica over 100 times.
- He rests in a simple tomb within a small niche inside the basilica.
- A group of 40 poor and needy people pays final respects before interment.
- This burial makes him the first pontiff laid to rest outside the Vatican in over a century.
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The funeral of Pope Francis: from the most powerful to the poorest
A Pope of the poor to the last: Francis chooses Santa Maria Maggiore as a burial place. There he is received by the needy and buried in a simple tomb. A last path full of symbolic power, reports Ivo Marusczyk.
Eusebio Hernández Greco: “The Pope’s legacy was the urgency of a Church for all”
It was 1995 when the Argentine priest Eusebio Hernández Greco met who would become Pope Francis, thanks to Monsignor Raúl Rossi, a bishop close to both who was ordained together with Jorge Bergoglio in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, in 1994. Hernandez, 20 years old then, was at the Metropolitan Seminary and had concerns about monastic life, so he told Bishop Rossi. “I don’t understand much about monastic life, but I can have you chat with a prie…
Downings priest to witness Pope Francis' historic basilica burial - Donegal Daily
Monsignor Eamonn McLaughlin, a native of Downings, will attend Pope Francis’s burial today. Msgr McLaughlin is one of the canons at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in central Rome where Pope Francis will be laid to rest. Through his dedicated work, Msgr. McLaughlin had the privilege of numerous personal meetings with the Pontiff. His mother and brother also had the opportunity to meet him in Rome. Francis will be the first pontiff in more than …
Funeral of Pope Francis IN LIFE: burial, posthumous ceremony and all about last goodbye to the Argentine pontiff
Farewell to Pope Francis. Funeral acts to dismiss the Argentine pontiff, who died on 21 April at the age of 88, will take place this Saturday 26 in the Vatican. The event will be attended by the highest ecclesiastical authorities and is confirmed the presence of at least 130 delegations from different countries and international organizations. All the incidents in this note from El Comercio.
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The funeral of a Pontiff, the burial of "a simple shepherd"
The funerals for Francis will begin this Saturday at 10:00 in San Pedro and will end with his funeral in intimacy with a group of needy, in the simple tomb of Santa María la Mayor
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